Performance

20 STONES

30.04.2026

20 PIERRES (20 STONES) is a two-part performance: a screening of the film Pietre, directed by Élise Blotière, followed by a reading by Laura Vazquez. This performance is an extension of an installation created at Villa Medici in Rome, where Laura Vazquez’s poem “20 pierres” was engraved on twenty stones laid out in the gardens.


SYNOPSIS

Did you know that just 20 words can form 2432902008176640000 poems?

Did you know that with 20 very simple, primary, easy words, you can say I love you I’m going to die I’m fine I know a stone I’m cradling it I destroyed the universe and reformed it?

Did you know that with very simple words, you can say I lick my love I sleep I’m afraid the world is good the world made me vomit the night hurts me the mist is without silence your eyes wash me I’m going to talk I don’t care about me complete and there and yes and nothing?

Directed by Élise Blotière
France | 2025

Laura Vazquez

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Elise Blotière

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Arthur Boval

Practical information

Thursday, April 30 at 6:30 p.m.
Grand Salon of Villa Medici
Wordless film, performance in French ST in Italian

Free with reservation: tickets

also to be seen at Villa Medici

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